Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1887-02-19

came III ana SPOKE W boaidiiidn oNoi
there?"
Mo-" came simultaneously from the
other two.
WELL" resumed the Judge, she was the
most serenely cold man | ever saw. He
| didn't have enough clothes on him to Wad
a shot gun, and though he shiyered like a
starved horse, never came near the stove,
nor looked lit a soul in the house during
his short visit. What did he say Broad
man?''
price Of day board" answered the
clerk laconically.
The Judge was about to resume when
his eye caught sight OF Il figure in the bar
room doorway. The man approached,
edged his way into the stove, extended his
hands vet gloved to the glowing furnace,
| eyed the whole circle intently ana indiyld-
ually, grunted out, cold! cold! d-n
cold" and with a piruette step advanced
upon Boardman.
If the visitor of that morning had been
old in every appearance Of garb, ms one
was a most pronounced contrast. LIS hat
had the precise bandboXy neWness which
a felt hat retains a short while in its youth.
His hair had just been shorn and his beard
trimmed, while on the shaven portions Of
his face and the undisciplined collar OF
his new coat there were streaks OF the
BARRIERS face powder. His spotlessly new
white shirt, collar and gaudy necftle
seemed bent on ~strangling him in cold en-
brace. His waisteoat stood straight up
and down in front of his stomach in re-
bellious unbendingness. His breeches
had vertical creases, both before and be
hind, aad failed to reach far enough down
to cover the insteps Of a pairof boots which
though meant to be stylish, We're far from
conveying any such impression to the be-
holder: their creakiness was astounding
The opening or closing Of a hand, the
slightest feint toward a pocket, a turn OF
their possessor's head even caused themto
squeak a piercing record Of the movement.
He was the newest looking man imagin-
able. Even the pink-spot bordered cotton
handkerchief had a starchy newness in its
c~reases, His voice even seemed to have
been Just purchased with his clothes.
One word was expressed with a low grunt
while the next was utteredin a highly I'M
expected pitch of shrillness. 1t actually
sounded as though he hadn't got used to
it yet.
Show much a week for board here?" he
~propounded to Boardman in such a run of
the gamut that the clerk was startled.
"Twenty-one dollars,' he at last man
aged to inform his questioner,
Good room with a fire in it?' he alter
nately grunted and shrieked.
sFires extra replied Boardman, alittle
less startled than before.
eAll right, gimme q week and fire;
take your change out O. that he lingui-
sticalIy ~cavortel as he unfolded a one
hundred dollar bill. On two little squares
it was pocket-worn on one side, on the
other it was as bright and new as ever bank
bill was. The issue was Of a date three
wears old, on a bank in Iowa,and as Board
man critically examined it concluded that
his customer had received it brand lie"
and had had kept it ever since.
He got his change, walked over to the
stove, stood u moment and then s%queaked
out again. No sooner had the door closed
behind him than the Judge looked sur
prisedly at the circle and the circle looked
supposedly at the Judge.
"Prisoner at tie bar--" he saw his
error,and with a wave Of his hand, Board
man, I mean, did you ever see anything
more ridiculously new than that person
who has just departed"
'Never," answered emphatically the
%laconic clerk.
GAS I was remark!ng this morning, that
if you WANT"
Screech, screech, and the new man en-
tered, carrying one end of a trunk, a new
one, and a very cheap looking one at that
"Here," he said to the half grown boy
who had llgged the other end. The boy
let go his hold and with a thud the trunk
struck the floor. Handing the boy a small
coin, the new man contorted his voice into
saying: "See that goes up to my room.'
Eyes, sir; excuse me, register please
said Boardman, adding, '.iorgot to remind
YOU" and he handed the guest a pen as he
turned the register before him.
The new man took the pen with a sud-
u.ar,, nx,nrn;rod tho mint of 1t diNnad